Confessions from the Velvet Ropes

080 Barcelona Fashion; backstage with Candy Pratts Price; grand, gaudy Gaudi; nights out with the ghost of Genet in Raval. Glenn Belverio reports from Barcelona.

Dear Readers,

Because I try to spend more time in the non-virtual world, I'm still trying to catch up on my blog reports from my recent trip to Barcelona. My reports can be read at Diane Pernet's AShadedViewonFashion.com, here are some links.

For my 080 Barcelona Fashion coverage:

Fashion report

Backstage with commentary by Candy Pratts Price:

Candy does Barcelona

Report on some of Antoni Gaudi's masterpieces

Report from Barcelona's nightlife

Jorge Yarur, the Museo de la Moda, Salvador Allende and the Pinochet years: Glenn Belverio reports on fashion and politics in Santiago de Chile in the new issue of ZOO Magazine

ZOO Magazine #18, The Cinema Issue, recently hit newsstands worldwide, and it includes my feature ("Man of La Moda") on the fascinating Museo de la Moda--a fashion museum I visited last November in Santiago, Chile. In the piece, I talk to the museum's owner, Jorge Yarur, and Chilean fashion historian Pia Montalva. The story of fashion in Chile, from Salvador Allende's Marxist government to the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet to the clothing in Yarur's museum, are all discussed.

Above: The hunky Jorge Yarur, photographed by Kai Junemann in Paris last year.

Above: Inside the Museo de la Moda

I will post some of the photos from my trip to Chile's coast later tonight...

Love,

Glenn Belverio